STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. MILLER

No. 1610.

182 So.2d 155 (1966)

STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lee MILLER, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

January 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Ross Banister, Norman L. Sisson, Chester E. Martin, Jr., Jesse S. Moore, Jr., Ben C. Norgress, by Ben C. Norgress, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Tate & Tate, by Paul C. Tate, Mamou, for defendant-appellee.

Before FRUGÉ, SAVOY and HOOD, JJ.


SAVOY, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit brought by the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Highways, under the Highway Expropriation Act (LSA-R.S. 48:441 et seq.).

Through the expropriation, plaintiff acquired a total of 6.91 acres of defendant's land for use in rerouting and blacktopping State Route La. 95, the Mamou-Chataignier highway.

In answer to plaintiff's petition, defendant admitted the adequacy of the amount paid for the land...

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